Joseph J. Fitzgerald  [ Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder ]

Joe brings over 26 years of experience providing operations, systems and configuration management solutions to hundreds of enterprise class IT organizations worldwide. Prior to founding ManageIQ, he was CTO and Director Product Development for Hewlett Packard’s Change & Configuration Management Software Business, a division of the $1B HP Software Business Unit, where he was named HP distinguished technologist in 2005.

Joe joined Hewlett Packard as part of the Novadigm (NASDAQ: NVDM) acquisition, a company he co-founded and where as CTO he spent more than 12 years pioneering large-scale configuration management solutions. Under his leadership, Novadigm was recognized by Gartner and IDC for its signature desired-state and policy-based management innovations and many times over as a Gartner “magic quadrant” leader.

Prior to co-founding Novadigm Joe engineered large-scale, high-performance networking software used in mission-critical applications by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. He is the author and co-author of numerous patents including those underlying Novadigm’s adaptive management technologies.

Oleg Barenboim  [ Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder ]

Oleg has over 20 years of experience in the research and development of systems management software including configuration management, communications, database and systems monitoring. His background in leveraging emerging technologies to architect solutions for challenges faced by enterprise IT is extensive. Oleg’s broad platform expertise ranges from enterprise mainframes, servers and desktops to embedded systems, smartphones and virtual computing environments.

Prior to ManageIQ, Oleg was a R&D leader at Hewlett Packard working in the Change and Configuration Management Business unit of HP Software. He came to HP through the acquisition of Novadigm, Inc. where he was a senior manager and a lead architect for its innovative policy-based desired-state technologies for large scale configuration management. Before his work at Novadigm Oleg held key development roles at Spectrum Concepts, Legent Corp and IBM. He received a B.A. and M.S. in Computer Science from New York University and a MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Thomas Anderson  [ Vice President of Field Operations ]

Tom brings 20 years of software industry experience, with a history of building and leading teams focused on delivering value to enterprise IT customers through repeatable processes and measured results. He has held leadership roles in sales, product management, services and support, most recently leading HP Software’s Americas Presales Organization, a 300 person team responsible for supporting a billion dollar software and maintenance revenue stream through both direct and indirect channels. Tom came to HP through the acquisition of Novadigm, Inc. where as one of the company’s initial employees he built and led teams in support, product management, professional services and sales engineering. Tom holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of San Francisco.

Marcus H. Cziesla  [ Vice President of Sales ]

Marcus has over 20 years of successful software sales and sales management experience, and has built and led high performance sales organizations in both start up and publicly traded software organizations. His areas of solution expertise include Systems Management, IT Operations, and Application Development Infrastructure software.

Marcus came to ManageIQ from Sterling Commerce, where he built and managed the team that successfully closed the largest transaction ($75M) in company history. Prior to Sterling Commerce, Marcus held sales leadership roles at Network Associates, Novadigm, and Hewlett Packard, where he led the transition of the Novadigm sales force into the HP Openview organization. Marcus began his technology career as a Systems Engineer at Pansophic Systems. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Swarthmore College.